Consisting of more than 2,000 objects, the cabinet, commissioned by Duke Emil August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772-1822) and assembled between 1804 and 1810, was considered the most important Chinese collection in continental Europe in the first decades of the 19th century. The project investigates the historical, cultural and social genesis of the Chinese Cabinet using a micro-historical approach. Emily Teo received her PhD on early modern Chinese travel literature and already worked as a visiting scholar at the Gotha Research Centre from October 2018 to December 2019.